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Audax Private Equity has acquired Ecolab’s Equipment Care business from Ecolab Inc, a provider of commercial kitchen repair, maintenance services, and parts to the US commercial food service industry.
Equipment Care services 40,000 locations across 25 states with 500 technicians and 400 subcontractors and distributes 25K SKUs of OEM and private label parts. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Geoffrey Ss Rehnert, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Audax Group, says: “Ecolab’s Equipment Care is a leader in the kitchen equipment repair industry. We look forward to working with Bill Emory and the rest of the Equipment Care team to build
Wynnchurch Capital has completed an investment in America II Group, an electronic component distributor, supplying a broad array of products for use in higher value-add applications across diversified end-markets including industrial controls and sensors, medical devices, data networks, internet-connected products and material handling/transportation equipment.
The Company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida with a global footprint and offices in the UK, Germany, China, Japan, Singapore and Mexico.
“We are excited to partner with a great management team and invest in a global market leader with a differentiated value proposition, diversified customer base and growing
Bedell Cristin has advised Leonard Green & Partners (LGP), a US private equity investment firm, on its acquisition of intellectual property management and technology group, CPA Global.


CPA Global was founded in Jersey in 1969 and has grown to become a major international organisation, servicing customers’ needs in 200 jurisdictions. The group specialises in registration, protection and administration of intellectual property, and it offers its customers a unique integrated platform of IP software and technology-enabled solutions.


LGP is a leading private equity investment firm founded in 1989 and based in Los Angeles. The firm partners with experienced management teams,
Funds managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) are to acquire a majority stake in SunSource Holdings, a distributor of hydraulic and pneumatic fluid power products in the US and Canada. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
SunSource serves a diverse customer base which includes more than 20,000 original equipment manufacturers and end users of hydraulic and pneumatic equipment. The company’s broad product portfolio of pumps, motors, valves, cylinders and components for use in mobile hydraulics and electronics, industrial hydraulics and pneumatics, automation and fluid process equipment exceeds 200,000 SKUs. SunSource serves equipment manufacturers and users across a
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the middle market, has acquired Nekoosa, a manufacturer of specialty paper and film products used in the graphics and commercial print markets.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Nekoosa produces a comprehensive suite of specialty engineered materials in four key product areas: application and pressure sensitive tapes used to protect and transfer graphics onto surfaces such as store windows and commercial vehicles; specialty synthetic papers that offer a digitally printable tear-and-water-proof alternative to lamination; sheeted digital
The Bank of England has raised interest rates by a quarter point to 0.5 per cent, the first interest rate rise in a decade.
Commenting on the decision, Andrew Fowkes, Head of Retail Centre of Excellence, SAS UK & Ireland says: “Today’s decision to increase interest rates will be felt by consumers immediately.
“Some brands have already invested in the ability to respond to external events in real-time to survive and thrive. Our research shows that over half (55 per cent) of UK organisations use changes in financial markets to inform their customer interactions, with telco providers, insurance companies and
Lowell, a European credit management services provider backed by the Permira funds and The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, is to create the second largest credit management services company in Europe through the acquisition of the carve-out business from Intrum.
The carve-out comprises Lindorff’s entire business in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, and Sweden as well as Intrum Justitia’s entire business in Norway and was specified by the European Commission as a condition of the combination of the two companies earlier this year.
The acquisition will create a leading pan-European credit management platform that benefits from significant scale and great regional, as
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund has reached an agreement with Neue Verlagsgesellschaft, a subsidiary of BurdaDirect, to acquire Debitor Inkasso, a German provider of mass debt collection services, focused on recovering overdue claims and debts on behalf of its customers.
Founded in 1977, Debitor Inkasso offers a broad range of tailor-made debt collection services to its customers, primarily in the e-commerce/social media, insurance and publishing industries. With a highly automated and continuously refined collection process as well as a broad communication platform (including modern communication channels such as email, WhatsApp and SMS) Debitor Inkasso acts as
Private equity investor Mid Europa Partners is to acquire Hortex Group from funds advised by Argan Capital. Hortex is a leading consumer goods player in Poland, with a strong brand and heritage in the juice and frozen food sectors.
The Transaction is subject to customary competition authority clearance, and is expected to close in Q1 2018.
Pawel Padusinski, Partner and Co-Head of Mid Europa’s Warsaw office says: “Hortex is an iconic brand in Poland, and we believe there is potential to develop the business further through leveraging its strong foundation. We are excited about the prospects of Hortex and
Stage Capital (Stage), a private equity and real estate investor backed by funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Glendower Capital, has sold three assets totalling over EUR350 million in value.
In total, the firm – which spun out from NBGI in October 2016 – has now realised 84 per cent of its invested capital since launch.
Stage continues to focus on maximising the value of its portfolio of investments, the latest phase of which comprises three major exits: Mermeren, The Mall and the Czech Logistics portfolio.
Mermeren is a global leader in the extraction and processing
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